Carbon Gas

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Carbon Gas

The world is a place where greed and speed have predominated, but recently even the gods of pace have acknowledged that they have to embrace environmentally friendly options or become extinct like the dinosaur age.

'Earth Car' gets the Formula 1 ball rolling

Team Honda was the first team in Formula 1, which is spoken in tactics two years ago and have decided to make an environmental statement of the brand conscious with their car tags business, but an untarnished and uncorrupted map of planet earth.

Certainly, this small contribution to the spread of the problem of carbon emissions of the gases did not done anything practical, other than remind us of the shortcomings of Formula 1, FIA and managers to take to heart the challenge.

The engines are humps every intention to become high-tech pioneers and leaders in the present unequivocal battle against climate change, one of the unpleasant facts of life that has the potential to destroy all us.

FIA President, Max Mosley, and the company has effectively banned any further development of gasoline engines, but they put their formidable support financial and know-how behind an innovative and more hybrids on the development of a greater power.

Biofuels a solution

Formula 1 can learn something from the U.S., where the Indy cars were run on ethanol for a while 'time and now there is much discussion about the possibility using biofuels instead of dangerously low reserves of fossil fuels left in the world today. Auto racing in Formula 1 now burning nearly a liter of fuel fossil-kilometers, the equation that can not be sustained, even for another season.

Kers could change the face of F1 for good

One of the ideas that occurred in Kers, the recovery of kinetic energy or systems, is to harness the energy lost during braking by reuse to increase the acceleration. If one considers that a racing car brake from a speed of over 200 mph to 50 mph in 2.5 seconds, then it is a given that a huge amount of energy is lost through braking and the consequent loss of heat associated with braking.

Energy shares can be introduced

Another idea that seems to materialize by 2011 is that every Formula 1 team would be given a bundle of energy for each race on the Formula 1 calendar. This bundle of decline from year to year and the team that wins the race would be the team that used energy more efficiently and effectively.

This would mean a major shift from a sport in which the fuel consumption has always been the major factor contributing to a sport in which the actual energy use of the car racing is of prime importance.

Team Honda battle to reduce their carbon footprint

Team Honda have made a concerted effort to reduce their carbon footprint by

the introduction of a recycling scheme at Honda plant
providing incentives for their workers to walk or bike to work
low energy use light bulbs and the whole installation solar panels on the roofs of all houses of earth motor
video conferencing company, instead of flying to meetings
turn off all lights and computer during the night

It is worth remembering that not only the grandstanding gestures that make a difference, but a series of small too.